MARCH 2022

VOlUME 05 ISSUE 03 MARCH 2022
The Liberation War of Bangladesh: Emergence of Nationalism in the Political Context
1Mohammad Anisuzzaman, 2Harun Ar- Rashid Mamun
1 Major, Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh; Principal, Jolshiri Public School and College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2 Postgraduate Student, Department of Public Administration, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh; Member, Bangladesh; Social Research Group (SRG), Bangladesh; Fellow, 2022 Cohort, Teach For Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i3-22

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Abstract

The age of the Bengali liberation war has crossed almost five decades. The political, social, economic, and cultural background of the liberation war of 1971 and the emergence of independent Bangladesh is huge and varied in the form of canvas. So, this current study titled "The Liberation War of Bangladesh: Emergence of Nationalism in the Political Context" aims to investigate in what context have the common people, including military, paramilitary, political, administrative and business people, come together at the same point to demand independence? Following that, the study deals with the great liberation struggle of the Bengali nation, and significant facts, events, situations, changes in the political landscape of the time, the background of the establishment of Pakistan, linguistic, tradition, culture, and conflicting differences between East and West Pakistan from 1947 to 1971. The development of Bengali nationalism is also documented in this study by highlighting inequality in different sectors by using various data and statistics. The study is mainly used secondary data to accomplish the article. For instance, books, interviews, newspapers, various researches, online liberation war documents, etc. were used as references in the described research.

Keywords

Liberation; War; Nationalism; Political Context; Bangladesh

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